1771 in art

Events from the year 1771 in art.

Events

 * Limoges porcelain manufacture established in France.

Works

 * Cristóbal de Aguilar – Manuel de Amat y Junient as Protector of the Monastery of the Nazarene
 * Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – Self-portrait in spectacles (pastel)
 * Louis-Bernard Coclers – Interior of a Foundry
 * John Singleton Copley
 * Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
 * Ezekiel Goldthwait and Mrs. Ezekiel Goldthwait (Elizabeth Lewis) (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
 * Jacques-Louis David – Minerva Fighting Mars (Combat de Mars contre Minerve)
 * Anton Graff
 * Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
 * Moses Mendelssohn
 * Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait bust of Diderot
 * John Hamilton Mortimer – Combined portrait of Dr Daniel Solander, Sir Joseph Banks, Captain James Cook, Dr John Hawkesworth and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
 * Alexander Roslin – King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers
 * Claude Joseph Vernet – Clair de lune ("moonlight")
 * Francis Wheatley – Scene from Twelfth Night
 * Joseph Wright of Derby
 * The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone, Discovers Phosphorus, and prays for the successful conclusion of his operation, as was the custom of the Ancient Chymical Astrologers (original version)
 * The Blacksmith's Shop (two versions)

Births

 * March 16 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (died 1835)
 * April 13 – Jakob Wilhelm Roux, German draughtsman and painter (died 1830)
 * May 2 – John Henning, Scottish sculptor and medallist (died 1851)
 * May 14 – Thomas Wedgwood, pioneer photographer (died 1805)
 * November 6
 * Alois Senefelder, inventor of lithography (died 1834)
 * Jovan Pačić, Serbian painter and poet (died 1849)
 * November 20 – Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver (died 1835)
 * December 16 – Jean Broc, painter (died 1850)
 * date unknown
 * Nikolai Ivanovich Argunov, painter and academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (died 1829)
 * John Heaviside Clark, Scottish aquatint engraver and painter of seascapes and landscapes (died 1863)
 * Samuel Elmgren, Finnish painter (died 1834)
 * John Eyre, Australian painter and engraver (died 1812)
 * William Armfield Hobday, English portrait painter and miniaturist (died 1831)
 * Thomas Richmond, English miniature-painter (died 1837)
 * Kazimierz Wojniakowski, Polish painter (died 1812)

Deaths

 * March 8 – Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (born 1688)
 * March 20 – Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter (born 1707)
 * April 14 – Laurent Cars, French designer and engraver (born 1699)
 * May 11 – Franz Edmund Weirotter, Austrian landscape painter (born 1733)
 * September 9 – Robert Wood, British engraver gentleman and politician (born 1717)
 * September 14 – Louis de Moni, Dutch genre painter (born 1698)
 * date unknown
 * John Baker, English flower painter (born 1726)
 * George Bickham the Younger, English etcher, engraver, printseller, and one of the first English caricaturists (born 1706)
 * Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain, French engraver (born 1710)
 * Charles Exshaw, Irish painter and engraver (born unknown)
 * Johan Georg Geitel, Finnish painter (born 1683)
 * Ding Guanpeng, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (date of birth unknown)
 * Giuseppe Marchesi, Italian painter active mainly in Bologna (born 1699)
 * Felice Polanzani, Italian engraver (born 1700)
 * Johann Preissler, German engraver (born 1698)
 * Andrea Soldi, Italian portrait painter working in London (born 1703)
 * probable – Anton Giuseppe Barbazza, Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period (born 1720)